X apostrophe ?

[nq:1]Headline from the New York Times web site: "White Sox¹ Buehrle Pitches Perfect Game" From which I deduce the Times ... an apostrophe to form the plural possessive. I wonder how think it should be pronounced - "sockses" ? Any thoughts?[/nq]
I don't like the practice of putting an apostrophe only after singular words that end in S on an S-sound to represent the possessive. Triply so if peo

[nq:1]Headline from the New York Times web site: "White Sox¹ Buehrle Pitches Perfect Game" From which I deduce the Times ... an apostrophe to form the plural possessive. I wonder how think it should be pronounced - "sockses" ? Any thoughts?[/nq]
It is exactly the same as would be "White Socks' Buehrle".

Cordially,
Eric Walker, Owlcroft House

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[nq:2]Headline from the New York Times web site: "White Sox¹ ... think it should be pronounced - "sockses" ? Any thoughts?[/nq]
[nq:1]It is exactly the same as would be "White Socks' Buehrle".[/nq]
Is Buehrle a White Sox or a White Sock?...r

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An optometrist asks whether you see the glass
more full like this?

[nq:1]Headline from the New York Times web site: "White Sox¹ Buehrle Pitches Perfect Game" From which I deduce the Times ... an apostrophe to form the plural possessive. I wonder how think it should be pronounced - "sockses" ? Any thoughts?[/nq]
Whatever you're doing to make your text intelligible still isn't entirely working. The salient term in your post looks like Sox followed by a superscr

[nq:2]Headline from the New York Times web site: "White Sox¹ ... think it should be pronounced - "sockses" ? Any thoughts?[/nq]
[nq:1]Whatever you're doing to make your text intelligible still isn't entirely working. The salient term in your post looks like Sox followed by a superscript 1, which makes it trickier than it need be to understand your point.[/nq]
I can only apologize, again. I

[nq:2]Whatever you're doing to make your text intelligible still isn't ... it trickier than it need be to understand your point.[/nq]
[nq:1]I can only apologize, again. It's clear that the problem is linked to copying and pasting from certain sites - ... one of them. And yet, when you quoted me, the superscript 1 showed up as an apostrophe in my newsreader...[/nq]
Go, as they are fond of s

[nq:1]Out of interest, I copied a sentence from the current NYT and reproduce it below, first pasted directly and second ... fish from jungle lakes and rivers have been a staple of the Kamayurá diet, the tribe's primary source of protein.[/nq]
Those are identical in my newsreader.

Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.english.usage)

[nq:2]Whatever you're doing to make your text intelligible still isn't ... it trickier than it need be to understand your point.[/nq]
[nq:1]I can only apologize, again. It's clear that the problem is linked to copying and pasting from certain sites - ... one of them. And yet, when you quoted me, the superscript 1 showed up as an apostrophe in my newsreader...[/nq]
The Mac moves in a myster

[nq:1]Eric Walker filted:[/nq]
[nq:2]It is exactly the same as would be "White Socks' Buehrle".[/nq]
[nq:1]Is Buehrle a White Sox or a White Sock?...r[/nq]
A question interesting but here irrelevant: the name of the team is simply a cute spelling of "White Socks".
I don't believe I have ever heard the term (or its analogues, such as Red Sox) used in a noun sense for an individual.

[nq:2]I can only apologize, again. It's clear that the problem ... superscript 1 showed up as an apostrophe in my newsreader...[/nq]
[nq:1]The Mac moves in a mysterious way... I suggested before that you try switching MIME on; as it says on ... and other news clients will be able to decode and display the article properly." It's worth a try, I think.[/nq]
I just switched it on. Here's a te